Senzoku Gakuen College of Music White Castle | Kawasaki-shi, Kanakgawa, Japan | 2018 

Architects: Takenaka Corporation 
Client: Senzoku Gakuen 
General Contractor: Takenaka Corporation 
Photographers: Nozomu Shimao 

This is a studio building for the ballet and dance course at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.

The purpose was to provide a spatial design that would appeal to the sensibility of dancers who aim the highest in the world.

The outer skin is composed of GRC pieces whose shapes are straight line and same curvature arc.

The GRC skin, with image of the supple “movement” of ballet, gently encloses the dance space.

These pleats had been designed to take soft light into the interior by repeatedly considering solar control and gaze line between inner and outer with 3D simulation.

Then, this project gives a new impression of campus as a college of music by piling lighting works from color fluctuation.

Unique space appealing to feelings Spatial configuration is constructed based on the simple shape made by putting 8 studio units (16m×14m) whose size is same as the hall in the campus.

The building provides dynamic space by adopting hybrid structure with RC anti-seismic wall and steel beams, in order to keep the required height of space for movement of ballet and dance under the condition of height limitation.

This project had pursued the best performance floor which is indispensable to ballet and dance by innovating special floor system and frame form verified with vibration measurement and simulation.

Interior is designed by layering artworks from the image of dance created by color and light spreading in various directions over the simple space.